After someone lives through an opioid overdose, taking the medication buprenorphine lowers their risk of death if they OD again, a new study found. Buprenorphine is a medication used to treat opioid ...

PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the ...

More than 15 years ago, Yale's Gail D'Onofrio started studying the effectiveness of sublingual (under-the-tongue) buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the emergency department.

Doctors say the medication is vital to fend off an onslaught of overdoses. Yet in recovery circles, there’s resistance. LYNNWOOD — At the clean-and-sober house on Larch Way, there’s no heroin allowed.

Adults with opioid use disorder who receive a higher daily dose of the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may have a lower risk of subsequent emergency department visits or use of ...

Signing into law a change that can prevent thousands of Americans from dying of opioid overdoses should have been met with fanfare. Instead, it not only slid under the media radar but hasn’t been ...

An Ohio man is suing the manufacturers of the transmucosal opioid use disorder and pain prescription medication Suboxone claiming that the drug’s high acidic content caused tooth decay and permanent ...

University of Houston (UH) researchers were awarded $1.4 million to eliminate dental problems that have been linked with buprenorphine, a prescription pain medication that has been shown to reduce ...

Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) is a prescription oral film that’s used in adults to treat dependence on opioid drugs. There are risks and benefits to consider before taking Suboxone during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy on July 23, 2018, in ...